According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

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"Every new result can reshape our understanding of planets, their habitability, and our place in this universe." ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

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